The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four staff of ZEFA Microfinance Bank at Abule Ijoko Lemode area of Ifo Local Government over the death of 50 -year-old Vivian Omo, wife of the bank’s debtor.
They allegedly shoved the woman while trying to resist them from packing their household belongings before she fell and became unconscious.
She was taken to a hospital but the doctor on duty pronounced her dead.
It was learned that events that led to the woman’s death started when the bankers visited for debt recovery but the exercise turned awry.
Ogun Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said it happened on May 10.
Oyeyemi, a Superintendent Police (SP), said when the suspects, who were not satisfied by the woman’s explanation about the whereabout of her husband, decided to pack all the electronics in the house to their office the step that was resisted by the deceased.
He stated, “While the deceased was struggling with the Bank’s staffers, one of them pushed her and she fell down and was unconscious.
“She was then rushed to hospital for medical attention, but was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty.
“The report was quickly lodged at Agbado divisional headquarters by the daughter of the deceased, consequence upon which the DPO Agbado division, CSP Awoniyi Adekunle, quickly led his detectives to the scene where four staffs of the bank namely: Badmus Olalekan, Ajibade Oludare, Eniola Aduragbemi and Femi Oloko were arrested.
“The corpse has been deposited at Ifo General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Olanrewaju Oladimeji, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide section of the state Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation.”
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